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The history of Sydney is the story of the peoples of the land that has become modern Sydney. Aboriginal Australians have inhabited the Sydney region for at least 30,000 years, and Aboriginal engravings and cultural sites are common in the Sydney area. The traditional owners of the land on which modern Sydney stands are the Darug, Dharawal and ...
The Gadigal people originally inhabited the area that they call "Gadi", which lies south of Port Jackson, covering today's Sydney central business district and stretching from South Head across to Marrickville/Petersham with part of the southern boundary lying on the Cooks River; most notably Sydney Cove is located in Gadi, the site where the first Union Jack was raised, marking the beginning ...
The Gweagal are the traditional owners of the white clay pits in their territory, which are considered sacred. Historically clay was used to line the base of their canoes so they could light fires, and also as a white body paint, (as witnessed by Captain James Cook). Colour was added to the clay using berries, which produced a brightly coloured ...
The Bidjigal (also spelt Bediagal, [1] Bejigal, [2] Bedegal [3] or Biddegal [4]) people are an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional lands are modern-day western, north-western, south-eastern, and southern Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. The land includes the Bidjigal Reserve, Salt Pan Creek and the Georges River.
The traditional lands of the Cammeraygal people are now contained within much of the North Sydney, Willoughby, Mosman, Manly and Warringah local government areas. [4] [5] [6] The Cammeraygal people lived in the area until the 1820s and are recorded as being in the northern parts of the Sydney region for approximately 5,800 years.
Traditional lands of Aboriginal tribes around Sydney [a] The Tharawal people and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people, identified by the Yuin language. [ 2 ] Traditionally, they lived as hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans with ties of kinship , scattered along the coastal area of what is now the Sydney basin in ...
The traditional owners of Bungarribee estate were the Warrawarry group of the Darug people. [2] They were based around Eastern Creek and the surrounding forest and grassland and used these for food and shelter, hunting and gathering a wide array of animal and plant foods including fresh water fish, crayfish and shellfish.
Kohen, J. L; Blacktown; Society, District Historical (1993), The Darug and their neighbours: The traditional Aboriginal owners of the Sydney region, Darug Link in association with the Blacktown and District Historical Society, ISBN 978-0-646-13619-6 (Trove and Worldcat entries) Kurupt, Daniel, ed. (1994). The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia.